OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Decorated spoon” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 10:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Decorated spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Fort Wayne, Indiana Owney tag
Artist not stated in the record · March 27, 1894
Spoon
Louis Nicolle · 1683–84
Folding Spoon with Engraved Decoration From Traveling Cutlery Set
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1827
Spoon Decorated with a Duck's Head
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1300 BCE
Traveling Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · mid–late 18th century
Spoon (one of a set)
Antonio Gentili (Antonio da Faenza) · late 16th century
Folding Spoon with Engraved Floral Decoration and Lion Cartouche
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700
Cosmetic Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300–1080 BCE
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · late 17th century
Spoon
Christopher Dresser · 1879–82
spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1722
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 2nd half of the 6th century
spoon
Artist not stated in the record · n.d.
Brass spoon
Artist not stated in the record
spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1700
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1487
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 1864
Silver spoon and fork
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 3rd century CE
Spoon
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550
Sugar bowl and spoons
Bendix Gijsen · 1804
spoon
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
Long-Handled Spoon Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes
Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Abi al-Hasan · 11th century
spoon
J. M. van Kempen and Sons, founded 1835 · 1877
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 156 matched · 24 examined · 8 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 55678 matched · 40 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 10:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.